Gears Of War 4 Coming To Windows 10

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Microsoft are certainly starting to bring their big guns from Xbox One to PC – big guns with chainsaws on ’em and everything. Gears of War 4 [official site] will launch for Windows 10 and Xbone in October, and both versions are tied together. It’ll be an ‘Xbox Play Anywhere’ game, which means that folks who buy it digitally get it on both platforms, with progress and achievements shared between them. Its co-op campaign and other co-op modes will support cross-platform multiplayer too.

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition came our way earlier this year, revamping of the first game, but Microsoft have held back on new games in their main series. Or they’ve slung us cut-down versions, like the singleplayer-only Forza 6 Apex. But now, yep, Gears of War 4 proper is coming our way.

It’s a bit fancier for us too, as it’ll support 2160p resolutions. As for cross-platform stuff, it sounds like competitive multiplayer will be sectioned off by platform but co-op campaign, Horde, and Co-op Versus modes will be playable across both.

October 11th is the Xbone date, so presumably it’s the same on PC too. Here’s a trailer with co-op from E3:

Do check out the rest of our E3 2016 posts, previews, odds, ends, and gubbins.

Still wonder how they’re handling this. From what I understood of Quantum Break, you could buy the One version and get a download code for “free”, but I guess only if you buy digitally, son you can’t just sell on the Xbox disc version?

And will they keep selling the PC versions of their games for 70,- Euros, which is 20% more than PC games cost even on Steam?

This whole thing is about Windows 10 adoption and building a competitive Windows store. They won’t care all that much whether they sell a few 100k games more or less juts because it’s not on Steam or older OSs. Whether it works out or not, only time will tell, but it’s not a /facepalm.

Well, you’re not “obliged” to do anything at all, it’s just a game, after all. You’re not entitled to play it according to your rules, either, though.

FWIW, I am not agreeing nor disagreeing with their strategy, I just thought the “facepalm” above was missing the point. Their goal clearly isn’t to sell the highest number of their games on PCs possible, but Windows 10 adoption.

It’s far from “just a game”. UWP is a disease that must be fought before it infects the whole of pc gaming. Microsoft wants pcs to be as closed and controlled as consoles. Enjoying your Skyrim mods? Forget them under UWP.